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Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: Does the Secretary of State regard as a triumph for new Labour the fact that 12 years on 4 million children are living in poverty?

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: You represent a Suffolk constituency, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and you share with the county of Essex the birthplace and home of the country's greatest landscape painter, John Constable. He, of course, is famous for his broad canvasses, but within them there is a great attention to detail, and later on I shall turn to that point. Government Ministers will be pleased to know that every Constable...

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

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Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: The Chairman of the Committee rightly praises the development of the 14-to-19 non-academic qualification. Does he agree, however, that that programme would be even more successful if there were not more than 100 colleges around the country whose promised building programmes have been halted? If the Government delivered what they promised, would that policy be more successful?

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: Around the country, we have seen the emergence of a few super-heads, who run two or three secondary schools. Although the Secretary of State has been silent about them today, he has welcomed them outside the Chamber. Can the hon. Gentleman let us know what the Conservative party view is on super-heads?

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: Oh, he will get here, will he?

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: I do not doubt the hon. Gentleman's sincerity. It is not what Conservatives say from the Front Bench today that concerns me, but what happens with Conservatives out there running education authorities. When 96 per cent. of parents in my constituency objected to the closure of two schools, wishing their schools to remain open under a super-head, the local Conservative-controlled education...

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: Will the Secretary of State give a definition of what a local community school is when a community has a school that the Tories want to shut, but the community wants to keep?

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Bob Russell: Will the Secretary of State give way?

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Topical Questions (10 Nov 2009) has video

Bob Russell: Although the number of deaths on our roads is at its lowest since records began, every life lost is one too many. The grief of families, however, is made worse when frequently they do not know what has happened to the driver of the vehicle in which their loved-one died. Does the Secretary of State agree that it is necessary for sentencing in all court cases in which a life has been lost,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (4 Nov 2009) has video

Bob Russell: Colchester is the fastest growing borough in the country. Despite that, Tory-controlled Essex county council plans to shut two of the town's seven secondary schools. It is now known that the council massaged the figures on projected pupil numbers. Does the Prime Minister therefore agree that the reorganisation proposals should be investigated by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Topical Questions (27 Oct 2009) has video

Bob Russell: Colchester's population is greater than that of many unitary authorities. Colchester borough council is the only one in Essex not run by the Tories, and consequently it is neglected and politically discriminated against by the county council. Will the Minister meet me to discuss how Colchester's authority can move towards having unitary council status?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Territorial Army (26 Oct 2009) has video

Bob Russell: The Minister says that no TA soldiers will be deployed to Afghanistan unless they have been on pre-deployment training. Does he accept that a large number of TA soldiers may choose to walk away because of these spending cuts, so there will be fewer soldiers to go on pre-deployment training in any case?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Afghanistan and Pakistan (14 Oct 2009) has video

Bob Russell: The Prime Minister's statement was silent on the continued abject failure of the major European NATO countries to provide troops on the ground in Helmand province. In respect of his comments on hearts and minds, may I suggest that his Government take some leadership? Over the summer his Ministers have told me: "No steps have...been taken by UK Trade and Investment to encourage the export of...

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Sale of Government Assets (12 Oct 2009) has video

Bob Russell: Will the Minister confirm that his brief fails to alert him to the common sense of hon. Members on both sides of the Chamber relating to the funding and history of the building of the two tunnels under the Thames and the Thames bridge? It was intended that they would be paid for and then made free. In a spirit of joined-up government, will he confirm that the Department for Transport is at...

Bills Presented: Afghanistan and Pakistan (16 Jul 2009) has video

Bob Russell: The Government have a lot more to do to win the battle of hearts and minds, not just in Afghanistan, but in this country. I am pleased to say that in 30 minutes' time, in Colchester, the commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, Brigadier Chiswell, will be doing just that. He will have a briefing with more than 100 leading members of the local community, in what is being billed as a "Post...